Re: [patch] VAIO irq assignment fix

Alan Cox
2002-01-18T00:21:52Z

> Unfortunately, the PCI interrupt routing stuff in ACPI is not in a static
> table, but needs the full-blown AML interpreter. Bad, but we can't do
> anything about it.

Is that true of the MPS table as well ? Can you deduce one from the other
even if you dont have a usable APIC ?

> It would be nicer to dynamically add the table, e.g. have the bootloader
> load it, kind of like the initrd, but that seems not possible without a
> lot of effort. (Or is the initrd protocol flexible enough to allow for
> this?)

It may not be enough. The AML can be doing register setup and configuration.